Author: Wole Shadare

Kenya has scrapped plans to construct a new terminal building at Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International airport due to excess capacity caused by recent upgrades to existing facilities, the Airports Authority said on Tuesday. President Uhuru Kenyatta launched the $650 million project in December 2013. China’s Anhui Construction and China National Aero-Technology International Engineering Corporation (Catic) had been selected to build the terminal that was expected to handle 20 million passengers a year, reports Reuters.

  *Job cut imminent *Minister sets up committee Aviation workers under the aegis of National Union of Air Transport Employees (NUATE) have petitioned the Minister of State for Aviation, Hadi Sirika on what they described as imminent crisis in aviation over exorbitant and multiple taxation/fees, arbitrarily imposed on handling companies and airlines by the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN). Equally worried by the situation are the two major handling company, the Nigeria Aviation Handling…

 *Egyptian hijacker’s suicide belt was fake    Culled from Reuters   Cypriot authorities have determined that the belt worn by an Egyptian man who hijacked an EgyptAir plane on Tuesday did not contain explosives, Egypt’s Civil Aviation Ministry said in a statement. “Security in Cyprus confirmed that the explosive belt worn by the man who hijacked the plane was fake,” it said.  An EgyptAir plane flying from Alexandria to Cairo was hijacked and forced to…

There is an indication that Nigeria performed excellently well at the just concluded audit of the country’s aviation industry conducted by the global aviation regulatory body, the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO)   Spokesman for the NCAA, Sam Adurogboye said this was made manifest during the presentation of preliminary audit result at the closing meeting of the ICAO Universal Safety Oversight Audit Programme (USOAP). He noted that this result clearly indicated that Nigeria has done…

*FG requires N25b for airports fencing The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) said the aviation industry contributes #250 billion to the country’s economy annually while providing more than 300, 000 jobs. The agency assured that government would continue to ensure growth in the sector. Spokesman for the agency, Yakubu Dati disclosed that most of the leakages observed in the past had been closed by the authority, stressing that this had made it possible for…